First Time Reaction | Queensrÿche - "Silent Lucidity" 

My little brother was a big Queensryche fan and he bought the album, Empire. He had Lupus and passed away from it in 1991 as this song was released as a single. This song reminds me of him and I miss him a lot. 😔

When I separated from my wife, I had our young daughter with me for the first time. She was crying because of separation from her mother. This song helped calm her, and the rest of the day was wonderful. Thank you Qeensryche 😊🙏🙏

Queensryche is one of the most underrated 80s bands. So dam good.

I'm 46 yrs old and I'm sad to say we won't ever hear incredible, timeless music like this again. It saddens me.

After 30 years this song still sounds amazing, it still hits you in the feels as it did when you first hear it, thank you Aileen for reacting to this.

That whole album is incredible. Jet City Woman is one of my favorites.

A lullaby is the perfect way to describe this song.

This song ALWAYS makes me cry every time for absolutely no reason. It’s genuinely just a beautiful song.

One of the most beautiful songs ever. Geoff Tate's voice is unreal and soul piercing, looking forward to your reaction tomorrow. 😀❤

There’s just something about this song. His voice, the guitar, the strings, lyrics. Yep…always brings tears

A true masterpiece. This is Queensryche's "Comfortably Numb". In the early 2000s, I did a weekly rock radio show on KKFI FM in Kansas City. I had heard that this song "picked up where Comfortably Numb left off". So I played them back to back, perfectly segued into the next, & just marveled at what I heard in my headphones. My show was on from 2-5a on a Saturday morning. The phones BLEW UP unlike ever before & I also heard something I'd never heard before from callers..... many were in tears & a couple just couldn't stop sobbing. It is one of the greatest privileges of my ENTIRE life to present 2 incomparable pieces of music like this to those who heard it.... & yes my friends- "Silent Lucidity" DOES take up where "Comfortably Numb" left off. Thank you Queensryche for music beyond words, & thanks fort posting, AileenSenpai- nice job, sister! We're grateful! 🙏

This song was written by the lead guitarist when he had to comfort his young son when he had a nightmare. This song is in fact a lullaby. When you have your own kids Aileen, remember this song.

“swaddled by Queensryche”. perfect description.

Oh, this song will get you into your feels rather quickly.

I was a 15 year old dad, and my daughter's mother would play this on guitar and I would sing this to our daughter. They were both 8n a car crash 4 years later. This song destroys me. I haven't thought about Marylyn in some time as I'm single handedly raising a 15 year old Michael 30 years later. Thank you for the flood of needed emotions. I appreciate you and your channel.

Empire should be in everyone's collection. Excellent album!

Supposedly this song is about lucid dreaming....but for me, it's about having loved ones who have passed still there, next to me in "silent lucidity"....this song brings me to tears every time I listen to it...can't wait to see your reaction...

Take hold the flame really shows Jeff range as a singer

I actually cried when I first heard this song because it felt as if my Dad was speaking to me through this song. My Dad passed away 15 years before this album came out.

By far one Queensryche greatest songs, the lyrics along with melody is just overwhelming. I was running a business in Abilene, Tx when one of my managers invited the wife & I to their Empire show in Dallas. We were blown away, couldn’t get enough of it, rocked to it all the home. Been a huge fan ever since.

This song will hit ya in the feelings, it's awesome

Geoff Tate is one of the truly great vocalists from the 80's. I have been listening to them since the early 80's.

Geoff Tate was easily one of the greatest voices of his era and for damn good reason.

I was in the Navy and stationed in Washington State during the rise of Queensrÿche. One of Geoff’s uncles worked at the shipyard next to where I was stationed. I met Emmett and he turned me on to his nephews band. This was when Operation Mindcrime was first released. To this day that album remains relevant and it drew me in from the first song. Then Empire came and showed just how diverse these guys could be with their music. As beautiful a song as Silent Lucidity is, my favorite from Empire is Anybody Listening. Incredible song from a phenomenal album!

This is an all-time classic that stands up today. Lucid dreaming is a thing and I encourage people to look into it if you can Master it it's really powerful. I have a two and a half year old daughter and on my list of songs I'm going to play for her and show her this is at the top of the list. So beautiful and powerful

I saw Queensryche open for Suicidal Tendencies way too many years ago. Everyone was quiet during this song. Magical. ❤

A Ballad from the best male vocalist of all time 🌹 can't fail 👌 like many others, this song got a big place in my heart ❤️ tx for the react

The song always seems to me to be narrated by a parental figure...like a god to their creation, a father to his child, a master to their disciple. "If you open up your mind for me, you won't rely on open eyes to see", is so spiritual

Thank you for this, Aileen... This song, for me, it's an example to show people that say that metal is just noise. It's pure emotion, and that's what metal it's all about (at least for me). Thank you for sharing your emotions with us.

This was a song that (former) guitarist/ songwriter Chris DeGarmo wrote for his young daughter, trying to tell her what dreams are. It became Queensryche's biggest hit single in 1990 from the 'Empire' album.

I'm turning into an old man as I write this, but sometimes I think we don't appreciate what we have when we have them... and then they're gone. I feel that way about this whole album (and even their previous album). Queensryche was a very special band and this song in particular is inexplicable and profoundly beautiful. Living in that moment was really wonderful.

Had the pleasure of seeing them play in an outdoor venue in Houston 15 or so years ago. They sounded exactly as they do here. Beautiful poetry.

This was the Silent Lucidity reaction I’ve been waiting forever to witness. Best example of how I felt about this song on first listen, so it was like getting to experience it again for the first time. Thank you.

One of the best songs ever made

Geoff has been my favorite vocalist for over 35 years. Even through all of my changes in music taste. I still listen to him at least daily. So phenomenal. He's no longer with Queensryche but still tours. I'm seeing him on 1/7. He's 63 and STILL sounds amazing!

It's up there with one of the best songs ever written. Consistently beautiful

This is one of my top 5 songs of all time. It's an incredibly well written song in my view. And did you catch the cello that came in near the end of the song? They're playing an excerpt from Brahm's Lullaby,

Saw Queensryche on the Empire tour & they closed the set with this track & brought the house down. Can't wait for you to get into more from "Operation Mindcrime" album. "Suite Sister Mary" or "Breaking the Silence".....

Sweet reaction. Another thing about this song is the timing in dynamics, when he sings the lyrics "come tumbling down and a new world will begin" the drummer adds a fill descending from high to low toms mimicking something collapsing, perhaps relative to the walls in the fore mentioned line "the walls you built within". Thanks for sharing.

What a beautiful genuine reaction. To a beautiful song.

Queensryche - Take Hold of the Flame Live in Tokyo 1984 is a must listen/watch.

Loved your reaction! Yes, it hits hard in the emotions. Guitarist, Chris DeGarmo (playing acoustic guitar at beginning and end, and also the double neck guitar) wrote the music and lyrics to this song. Michael Kamen arranged the strings. The first time I heard it, when it got to the middle part with the deep voice (before they added what was being said to the lyrics) I thought it was depicting a nightmare. Which it might be alluding to musically, but the lyrics are just instructing and encouraging the child about how to achieve lucid dreaming. Queensryche is an INTENSE band. They have a very dynamic songwriting style. This song is much less edgy than their usual pallette. But, oh so BEAUTIFUL! It was up for a Grammy at the time Queensryche exceeds in evoking FEELINGS in the listener! Such a great band (original lineup, first 5-6 albums). You had many insightful thoughts about this song! It continues to amaze me, the wide variety of thoughts, memories, and emotions this song awakens in listeners. That's good songwriting, good musicianship, and exceptional vocals! When you said how hard it hit you, I think that's because our spirits recognize and resonate with TRUTH. When we hear something true, we know it and have a response to it. I SO enjoyed all your intelligent comments and your take on this beautiful song! Please continue to do Queensryche reactions when you can. They are a band that doesn't disappoint! Read a little about QR's "Operation: Mindcrime" for a full-album story that is hailed a musical and lyrical masterpiece. P.S. It's OK about cliches. They become cliches because they are so true. See you next time!!

That's one of the prettiest songs I've heard. The lyrics and his voice just incredible. This is one of the songs that will never get old.

This song is a classic. One of his best vocal performances is Take Hold Of The Flame- Live in Tokyo. Well worth a listen

Again, I love the way you ACTIVELY listen. So many nuances you are catching. Queenrÿche is heavier extension of Pink Floyd (they were very influenced by them) and it is not coincidence that you are being deeply moved by both. I’m riveted for your future Queensrÿche (and a Floyd!) reactions!!

I love how this song has progressed for me since originally hearing it back when it came out when I was in middle school. At that time I understood it as a comforting lullaby because I was still a child myself at the time. I my early twenties I understood it to be about how the guitarist Chris DeGarmo intended it to mean about lucid dreaming and achieving control over your dreams. In my thirties I understood it to mean being aided to literally manifesting your dreams in your real life. Now in my forties, as I know friends losing parents and have lost childhood friends, I hear it as though you are being comforted by your loved ones who have already passed on and are still watching over you and waiting for you to join them. The way this song’s meaning when I listen to it has morphed over the years is what makes me absolutely LOVE this song. His voice, the instrumentals, their timing, it is all so lovely. Such a great song!!! 🎶❤

one of the most beautiful songs ever... nice reactions 👍

Always thought Empire didn't have the recognition it deserved cause Mindcrime's success, but is a masterpiece too. This and Anybody Listening have the vibe, the emotion, beautiful both.

Loving the emotions you showed. I could feel the depths that it was taking you. Great song. That’s why it was voted MTV peoples choice award and hit the charts. 🤘🏽

This is possibly the greatest power ballad of all time. It’s certainly one of the most beautiful. A lucid dream is a very unique experience to have. And, what you said about things being able to get better, is something I am in total agreement with. Because I’ve seen my own life improve, so people can believe in positive change.

Tears me up every time as well for no reason, it’s just a beautiful song

Every hair band of the 80's put out a ballad. All were awesome.

Geoff's voice and range 💗 So glad you discovered them. They were amazing. Saw them twice in late 80s and early 90s

One of the most beautiful songs ever written. The arrangement, the vocals, all of it is a masterpiece. Astral projection is so liberation and opens the mind like he says to beautiful new dimensions.

July 7th 1991 Pensacola Florida. I was 23 and took my 17-year-old brother to the Building Empire's concert. He and I had completely digested the album when it first came out. Listening to it on vinyl, Reading the lyrics and the liner notes as the album played. We totally got sucked into the amazing concept album. The show was simply outstanding and being an amateur, very frustrated drummer at the time Scott Rockenfield was the absolute hardest working drummer I had ever seen. He never stopped. I mean the entire show he never stopped playing as the band seamlessly went from one song into the next. Geoff was simply Geoff. One of the greatest rock vocalists of all time. The whole band was incredible. They had a huge video screen above the stage and when they played Jet City woman, there was a high fashioned beautiful woman on the video smoking a cigarette with one of those elongated black cigarette holders and when she blew the smoke out a stream of smoke came out of the screen. I'm sure there was a little hole nobody could see but it was the coolest damn thing I'd ever seen in a concert, at the time.😂 It was a very special night for my brother and I and the start of going to hundreds of concerts together.

Geoff has an absolutely beautiful voice - They had so many amazing Songs.

Love Queensryche and they are one of the best bands that I have seen live.

The entire Operation Mind Crime album is one of the best ever made. It is powerful, and emotional stuff from start to finish! the thing is each song gives even more meaning to the next. It really has to be listened to in the way you would watch a movie.

I Love this Song! Thank you so much for high lightening this incredible song! Awesome!!!❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

That whole album was complete perfection.

Thank you Aileen. Great reaction and assessment! This mindblowingly gorgeous and emotional song still makes me well up with tears after all these years (i'm 61 years young), and even after probably a thousand listens! To me, it is a song of intense caring and loving, which can encompass one's dream states as well as pain and loss felt in real life. It is one of those songs that is open to intense personal interpretation.

Hits you right in the feels doesn't it? Even if you never said a word, the very subtle facial reactions you had spoke volumes. This song came out when I was in high school. Talk about feeling old. When I hear it now, it makes me think of my dad. He's been gone for almost 5 years now, but what I always remember is that the reason it hurts is because we loved and were loved. And that is a thing to be cherished. Great video!

This is one of those songs you feel while listening to it. It's a timeless song.

This song makes me think of my mother. The day she passed away back in November 1997, this played on the radio more than once. I can never forget "the pain of someone close" leaving the game of life. It's a beautiful, haunting song. But the part about watching over her also gives me hope that my mom is doing just that. I appreciate your videos.

This whole album is straight 🔥🤟💯

This is an example of why people who were young in the 70’s and 80’s and 90’s had the BEST music ever to listen to.

Saw them live no electric just playing and singing my god he’s got a voice and the band are playing their hearts out awesome 👏

Great reaction! Fun to be able to hit the Premiere!

I saw this video on its premiere and was stunned, It has become a staple in my karaoke repertoire and usually gets the biggest applause of the night, I have also played it in a couple bands and it always gets great response. The Empire album is my favorite Queensryche album, the band was firing on all cylinders at this point and creating some great music. If I may suggest my favorite song from the album would be Another Rainy Night (Without You). You were talking about poetry in this reaction and thats what I always felt about Another Rainy Night. Its a more aggressive song but as Queensryche goes, its on the mark.

One of my all-time songs. The lyrics are beautiful, the instrumentation spot on perfect, and the video goes perfectly with it. Love it!

One of the most touching songs ever written. I'm sitting in my old room watching MTV 4:3 on an old TV and hearing this song for the first time. Music is a time machine.

Thank you for your analysis and reaction to this beautiful song. Very honest, accurate and not at all overreacted.

Check out Queensryche’s “Take Hold Of The Flame” live in Tokyo. It’s one of the best live vocal performances you’ll ever see(imo)

This song still gives me chills, brings tears to my eyes, and melts my heart. It's a mass of feelings from happiness, comfort, and sadness. OMG I love this song so much.

This song blew me away when I heard it for the first time 30 years ago. It has lived and will live on, as a mind-bending, ethereal lullaby that should be played from every parent to every child.

So when you’re listening to some of the mindless and vulgar lyrics in today’s music…Be reminded that my generation created otherwise…This is a flawless piece of music.

Even if you dont care about this band, like me, Geoff's vocals are so insane. This song makes me tear up everytime. As an only child, the vocals kill me and hits me so fucking hard. Dude this song obliterates me.

The only song that made my entire car of metal heads pull over. We were on our way back from the record store and this new cassette was in the Jenson pumping through the 16x9s and then this came on. We had to stop and listen. It's still "holy crap" this many years later. Geoff is one of the best rock frontmen in history.

Masters of emotive music, his voice is completely off the charts!! Listen to 'THE LADY Wore BLACK' by same band, absolutely beautiful 🤗🤗😎

I remember QUEENSRYCHE getting alot of Pink Floyd comparisons and criticism for this song, but I have always been a fan

I saw Queensryche in late 2022 in Colorado USA and they absolutely Shredded it. Look for them Live in 2023.🎼🎼🎼🎼🎼

Absolutely beautifully haunting ❤️❤️❤️

I can remember as a teenager not liking this song, as it was slow and just didn't get it. As an adult, this song is mesmerizing, an instrumental and lyrical feast that I can never get tired of hearing. Some reactions to this song even say they play this at funerals. There's no doubt this song takes you on a mental and emotional journey and makes a song like this have legs for generations to come.

Been hoping to see you do some Queensryche. Amazing song. If you want to hear them play harder music with insane vocals "Take Hold of the Flame" Live in Tokyo 1984 is a must watch.

Simply Beautiful!!! Will never forget hearing this for the first time in the 80s!!!!!! QUEENSRYCHE ROCKS!!!!!

Lying silently watching, smiling, as your child sleeps. And dreams. All the while wondering what wonderful, mesmerizing, fantastic adventure they’ve embarked upon this time …knowing that if things somehow go awry you’re there to comfort and reassure them [should they wake] that everything IS, and WILL, be okay!🤗🫶🏻🥰

Great song for sure and drew in many newer fans. Their early albums through Empire are all time classics. Try The Lady Wore Black, Sanctuary and On the Roads to Madness for heavy, killer cuts. Operation Mindcrime should be heard as an entire album in one sitting, like some Pink Floyd concept albums, they were made to be heard like watching a movie all at once to really get the story. In any event, much more Queensryche, please! Enjoy. 🎵🎸🎤🎹🎶

Been my favorite sing for so many years, V. lucidity is a name I used for years . I lucid dream now on a regular basis. I'm older and understand more now as to why this song played such a strong role in my life back then.. it was a doorway for me to realize that as I could now control my dreams when sleeping I also control my waking dreams. The beginning verse where he says, "your mind tricked you to feel the pain of someone close to you leaving the game of life.. I just lost my brother in December 22 , and this was also one of his favorite songs. This song is a key to understanding our inner power awake or asleep ❤❤

This was the epitome of Queensryche. He had a beautiful pop star voice, while playing hard guitar in the background.

"Take Hold Of The Flame" Live in Tokyo. I'm telling you. ITS A MUST WATCH. . it shows Geoff true range. 👍 you'll be amazed I guarantee it or I'll venmo you my paycheck . GUARANTEE

This track, like so many of Queensryche songs, just hits different. So soulful and hauntingly beautiful.

So happy to explore this legendary band Queensryche. How did I missed this great track all these years? Its a Masterpiece ❤

Great interpretation and very deep 👏 now try powerful live Queensryche 84 Tokyo concert the song Take hold of the flame 🔥 you'll feel the magic.

Musically swaddled. What a wonderful way to describe this indescribable experience. ❤

This song has always been one of my favorites. It’s so comforting to me. I had lucid dreams twice in my life and it was the most amazing dreams I ever had. I didn’t want to wake up. I remember distinctly trying to stop my own waking. Kind of crazy in retrospect but I always kind of wish I could go back.

"Beautifully sad" 100% accurate. Thanks for sharing, love to see more of your reactions.

A hauntingly beautiful song from one of the very best bands to come out of the whole rock scene of the 80's and 90's

30 years later and this song hits me hard every time , still get tears in my eyes to this one. So beautiful and sad at the same time.

A song for the ages. Tears every time hearing it. Powerful.

My brother turned me on to Queensryche in the 90s. My favorite group ever since. It will be yours too after you listen more! Every song is good!!!